sakhi
 
  1  
Wed 15 Apr, 2009 12:39 am
@sozobe,
Smile...

I like her too - a lot!
sozobe
 
  1  
Thu 14 May, 2009 06:27 pm
@sakhi,
A quickie in the form of an email exchange between E.G. and I earlier today. Brief backstory -- she had surgery last Monday (may 4th) that included tonsillectomy, adenoidectomy, myringotomy (tubes in ears), and turbinate cautery. Turbinates are things in the outside wall of your nostrils that swell when a) you're allergic to something or b) if they're very sensitive. Sozlet's are usually swollen, which makes it hard for her to breathe through her nose. The cautery reduced their size in the hopes of making it easier to breathe. One healed fast, the other one had this weird largish white bump that we couldn't figure out.

I wrote:
Ya know that thing in her right nostril? That we weren't sure whether it was a blister or a swollen turbinate or what?

Guess what -- it was the bottom end of the hugest and grossest booger ever.

[sozlet] just blew it out of her nose. It's a pretty amazing thing.

Meanwhile, the inside of her nose looks FANTASTIC now. (Open and clear.) And she says she can breathe unbelievably well.


E.G. wrote:
OMG. Yuck.

Glad she's breathing well.


E.G. wrote:
and how am i supposed to get that image out of my mind now?


I wrote:
Yeah, well you haven't actually SEEN the thing.

Although you can. I started to throw it out but sozlet thought you might want to see it. It's in a little container (from recycling box) neatly labeled in sharpie (by sozlet); "The SPECIMEN"

You think I'm kidding, but I'm not.


Quote:
that's our kid. so addams family.
Thomas
 
  1  
Thu 14 May, 2009 06:32 pm
@sozobe,
Thanks for a much-needed laugh!
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Joeblow
 
  1  
Fri 15 May, 2009 06:56 am
@sozobe,
Eeeuuww- hoohoo haha. I can’t believe you kept it.
sozobe
 
  1  
Fri 15 May, 2009 06:59 am
@Joeblow,
Gone now!

By the way, one piece of info that helps makes sense of things -- she wasn't allowed to blow her nose for a week after the surgery. That's how it managed to, er, develop.
Joeblow
 
  1  
Fri 15 May, 2009 07:08 am
@sozobe,
sozobe wrote:

Gone now!


Oh thank God. It was stressing me out!
ehBeth
 
  1  
Fri 15 May, 2009 10:13 am
@Joeblow,
Joeblow wrote:

It was stressing me out!


I was expecting a photo
Aldistar
 
  1  
Fri 15 May, 2009 10:30 am
@ehBeth,
haha! Me too! It's like a car wreck, you don't want to see but can't help looking.
sozobe
 
  1  
Fri 15 May, 2009 10:54 am
@Aldistar,
Sorry, I know this one was extra-gross! I liked "specimen" though and you kind of have to know the rest for it to be funny... maybe not.

It's long gone, no pictures, don't worry. I COULD describe it in detail...


... but I'll spare ya.
mac11
 
  1  
Fri 15 May, 2009 10:57 am
Hilarious!
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Thomas
 
  1  
Fri 12 Jun, 2009 01:45 pm
This story sounds as if Sozlet and EG could have pulled it off.
chai2
 
  1  
Fri 12 Jun, 2009 02:35 pm
@sozobe,
sozobe wrote:

Sorry, I know this one was extra-gross! I liked "specimen" though and you kind of have to know the rest for it to be funny... maybe not.

It's long gone, no pictures, don't worry. I COULD describe it in detail...


... but I'll spare ya.



AAAAAGGG.....KNARLY!!
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sozobe
 
  1  
Fri 12 Jun, 2009 02:47 pm
@Thomas,
Sozlet response:

"THAT... IS... AWESOME!!"

I did think of that when I saw the story!
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edgarblythe
 
  1  
Fri 12 Jun, 2009 02:50 pm
There ought to be a museum of boogers. I love it.
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sozobe
 
  1  
Fri 12 Jun, 2009 03:03 pm
Thomas reminds me I haven't updated this in a while. Sozlet just drew this -- it's hard to explain but I'll post it anyway. Short version -- E.G. has been very into Cabela's lately, clothes-wise. As a joke, he cut the sleeves off an old plaid flannel shirt and freaked me out by looking super-rednecky when he paired it with his regular Cabela's pants et al. (He's NOT, in any meaningful way. He's a pointy-headed ivory tower citified nerd.)

http://i34.photobucket.com/albums/d130/sozobe/redneck2.jpg
Thomas
 
  1  
Fri 12 Jun, 2009 06:45 pm
@sozobe,
Your daughter likes pink? Who would have known?
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chai2
 
  1  
Fri 12 Jun, 2009 06:57 pm
@sozobe,
sozobe wrote:

Thomas reminds me I haven't updated this in a while. Sozlet just drew this -- it's hard to explain but I'll post it anyway. Short version -- E.G. has been very into Cabela's lately, clothes-wise. As a joke, he cut the sleeves off an old plaid flannel shirt and freaked me out by looking super-rednecky when he paired it with his regular Cabela's pants et al. (He's NOT, in any meaningful way. He's a pointy-headed ivory tower citified nerd.)

http://i34.photobucket.com/albums/d130/sozobe/redneck2.jpg





Oh soz, that's hysterical!!! I just showed it to Wally and he thought it very clever.

maybe cause we live in Texas.
dadpad
 
  1  
Sat 13 Jun, 2009 01:17 am
Quote:
As a joke, he cut the sleeves off an old plaid flannel shirt


Tell EG he is not alone. I have one too.
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sozobe
 
  1  
Sat 13 Jun, 2009 07:21 am
@chai2,
I'm glad a Texan appreciates it!

Thomas, sozlet's actually rather anti-pink these days, it's far from her favorite color anyway. She dresses kinda tomboy/ skater. Typical outfit: white and yellow baseball shirt with a funky graphic, knee-length denim shorts (with some scuffs and stuff), black converse hi-tops. Hair long, curly, and in a ponytail or braids, tortoiseshell cool-lookin' glasses, and a silver goddess pendant on a black cord. Several of her best friends are boys and she recently reported with a great deal of pride that she's now considered an "honorary boy" because she's greeted with a ritual chest-bump that only boys typically do. She usually disdains "Hannah-Montana-loving-girly-girls" but will overlook that deficit if they're nice in other ways. Her core posse -- four girls, including her -- are all sporty/tomboyish. One of the posse is this tiny little thing who looks like a kindergartener but who is the terror of the soccer fields. She's got mad skillz. Sozlet, Tiny Terror, and another posse person (original BFF) were so fun to watch when they were the front line at soccer this year. A goal pretty much always resulted, though the person responsible varied.

(That was kind of random, just a sozlet-snapshot I guess.)
sozobe
 
  1  
Mon 3 Aug, 2009 02:07 pm
@sozobe,
Story from old classmate at my 20-yr reunion:

I lived in the same area K-12 and many of the people I graduated with were people I knew since I was really little. I brought sozlet to a family picnic that was part of the reunion weekend and everyone was gobsmacked by how much sozlet looked like me, especially the ones who knew me at her age. I spent most of the time chatting with people while sozlet wandered around doing this and that. So the classmate told me that she saw sozlet (on her own) and went up to her and said "Hey, you must be [sozobe's] daughter!" and she said "yeess..." in a bored, "here we go again" sort of way. It turns out that people were saying that to her about every five minutes and she was kind of OVER it. Heh.
 

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